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Revelation 5:14

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four [and] twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

Revelation 5:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Revelation 5:14

Theological / Devotional

Amen. See on Matt. 5:18. Both the antiphonal praises and the following “Amen” portrayed here were characteristic of early Christian worship. Pliny, writing less than two decades after John, records that in their worship services the Christians “sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god” (Letters x. 96; Loeb ed., vol. 2, p. 403). Describing the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, Justin Martyr, writing in the 2d century, says that after the leader of the congregation had offered prayers and thanksgivings, “the people assent, saying Amen” (First Apology 67; ANF, vol. 1, p. 186).

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